Free the tone/providence sov2 description.

[octatonic]

I played one at the London jam on Thursday.

It was very, very good- thick, crunchy and tight.
The Klon KTR was better (albeit different) to my ears.

The Klon is a lower gain box but it had more authority and weight- the FTT was a tad fuzzy in comparison.
Both were great though- I wouldn't pay £350 for the FFT but would have no trouble paying £250 for the Klon.
No trouble at all.

[mattf77]

Obscene amount of money for a pedal.
That is all!

[Misty]

Buy the best you can, then when it's paid for and the cost is forgotten about you can just enjoy using it, knowing that second best would never have been as good. That's it.

[HJohn]

I'd be interested in a used SOV or this one. I haven't found anything to repalce my OCD as the core sound in my setup, but I briefly wondered about a Providence - an SOV or a Heat Blaster. Even the £200 price tag of those put me off at the time, but I'd love to be able to test drive one for a day with my own setup.

[JCA2550]

Simon Law, builder of SVL Guitars and Road Manager/tech to Matt Schofield, rates the FTT SOV-2 as superior to the Providence version at gig volumes but recently favoured the Vemuram Jan-Ray over the Klon Centaur. And yes they are all expensive but they are also at the top of the tree in terms of what they do. Having said all that, I was very impressed by Stickyfiddle's Alembic boost clone the other night which probably cost under 20 quid in components but how many hours go into developing the skills necessary to put these together?

[darcym]

I think it's all about how you use them and what you get out of them.

I use a klon a free the tone and a Jan Ray at the moment, I use the klon to push the amp and it's perfect, as I said in my Jan Ray review, you can use it the same as the Klon, but I add a little bit of gain with the Jan Ray which puts a slight black fact twang on it, and the FTT is again totally diferent and can't do what either the Klon or Jan Ray does, as it has a clear voice,

I could dump the Klon and replace it with the Jan Ray, but I think the Jan Ray has more of a voice than the klon, so it's all about what you want, how you use them, the thing is though, the three pedals in this example of expensive, and I don't think it's co-incidence.....

[HeartfeltDawn]

Simon Law, builder of SVL Guitars and Road Manager/tech to Matt Schofield, rates the FTT SOV-2 as superior to the Providence version at gig volumes but recently favoured the Vemuram Jan-Ray over the Klon Centaur. And yes they are all expensive but they are also at the top of the tree in terms of what they do. Having said all that, I was very impressed by Stickyfiddle's Alembic boost clone the other night which probably cost under 20 quid in components but how many hours go into developing the skills necessary to put these together?

I've had serious amounts of OD pedal on my boards and quite honestly for low gain overdrive the only one I've got now is the Marshall BB1 clone a friend of mine made. The parts were peanuts and I gave him a bit more for his time. £40 in total and it's a knockout. Very much over the 'premium cost low gain pedals' now.

[IanCorps]

I await the MadBean Clone diagram and knock it together for £50

[darcym]

ammusing I also depend on the bluesbreaker pedal

[bobsbobbackwards]

I'm not saying it's not worth the money, but I think it's wrong to say that because it's so expensive it's better than cheaper pedals. But it does sound different, trouble is one man's high quality tone is another man's over-refined generic sounding tone. To me, as an example when used by Matt Schofield I hear a very pleasant but also very vanilla tone that bores me a little. I guess it's what you like, but given £345 to buy one some people would probably still buy a Rat or something because they can hear more character in the tone.

But there's nothing wrong with the price, buy it or don't! If I wanted soft, silky vanilla-flavoured transparentness I'd probably be looking at them myself....... (then seeing who makes a clone)